Typos: CBEX56G and XBEM56G should both read CBEM56G.
Kernel: Originally 2.4.2-2 upgraded to 2.4.3-12 for i686.
Resolution Procedure: Build latest tulip_cb driver from
'pcmcia-cs-3.1.28.tar.gz' available from 'sourceforge.org' by:
1) extracting minimally from the tarball:
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/Configure
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/Makefile
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/config.in
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/rules.mk
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/clients/Makefile
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/clients/tulip_cb.c
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/etc/config
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/etc/config.opts
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/include/pcmcia/driver_ops.h
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/include/linux/config.h
but you may also wish to extract:
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/BUGS
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/CHANGES
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/README
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/README-2.4
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/SUPPORTED.CARDS
pcmcia-cs-3.1.28/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO
for reference. The entire tarball may be extracted if one is willing to
sacrifice the 4.5MB of disk space (I, for one, am not willing to sacrifice
multiple MB of precious disk space to build one 40K driver module that should
have been included in the kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.24-2.i386.rpm package in the
first place).
2) installing the kernel-source-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm, excluding
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/Documentation
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/arch
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/configs
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/devfsd
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/drivers
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/fs
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm-generic
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm-i386
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/byteorder
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/lockd
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/nfsd
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/raid
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/sunrpc
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/net
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/net/irda
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/pcmcia
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/scsi
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/video
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/init
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/ipc
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/lib
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/mm
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/net
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/scripts
from the install and symbolically link '/usr/include/asm' to
'/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm' unless you have the 100MB of disk space
necessary to install the entire kernel source package to spare (I do not).
3) changing directories to 'pcmcia-cs-3.1.28' (wherever you put it) and
invoking './Configure' (accept all the defaults).
4) changing directories to 'clients' and, if the minimal kernel sources are
installed, adding the following lines after '#include <linux/netdevice.h>' to
'tulip_cb.c':
/* Kernel version 2.4.x and higher */
#define netif_mark_up(dev) do { } while (0)
#define netif_mark_down(dev) do { } while (0)
#define tx_timeout_check(d,h) netif_stop_queue(d)
to avoid the "unresolved symbols" problem in 2.4 kernels.
5) invoking 'make tulip_cb.o'
6) copying the newly built 'tulip_cb.o' driver module to
'/lib/modules/2.4.3-12/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia' and symbolically linking it
to '/lib/modules/2.4.3-12/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o'.
7) editing the '/etc/pcmcia/config' file so all the "xircom_cb" configuration
entries are changed to "tulip_cb". It is also recommended to modify the
CBEM56G bind entry to read simply
bind "tulip_cb"
instead of the original
bind "xircom_cb" to 0, "serial_cb" to 1
since the "serial_cb" driver is not included in
'kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.24-2.i386.rpm' and the serial cardbus devices work with
the standard serial drivers (see bugzilla 52119).
8) moving '/lib/modules/2.4.3-12/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_cb.o' to
'/lib/modules/2.4.3-12/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_cb.broke' and remove
the symbolic link '/lib/modules/2.4.3-12/pcmcia/xircom_cb.o'. Failure to do
these changes will cause the pcmcia subsystem to load both the "xircom_cb" and
"tulip_cb" drivers so neither will work. And finally,
9) Either restarting the pcmcia subsystem or rebooting the machine.

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